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The GigaOM Show: Special Guest Slide CEO Max Levchin
In this week’s episode Joyce and I chat with Max Levchin, CEO of Slide about widgets and everything that goes with them. He pulls a Tom Cruise on us - one guesses because of that glass of scotch he knocked back during the interview.Quicktime Small (88 mb) WMV Small (101 mb) Xvid Small (119 mb) [...]

Scarcity Illusion, Traffic Delays, Last.fm, & Excel Tips
How to use scarcity illusion to your advantage? Steve does it. (FoundRead)How to achieve work life balance (Webworkerdaily)Nine ways to make your mouse roar. (WebWorkerDaily)Sonic Mountain eats Fire Ant (NewTeeVee)Five ways to recycle your cell phones (Earth2Tech)When will the curtain fall on film. (NewTeeVee)Solar IPOs are no go. (Earth2Tech)

Viacom Attempt At Cool, FLUX
Viacom, which apparently had bought Tag World has announced its own social network, FLUX, which is essentially Tag World. I could say so much - instead we are letting the photo do the talking. Viacom’s octogenarian owner Sumner Redstone meets Entourage’s Adrian Grenier.

SIPphones New Callback Service, Gizmo5
Michael Robertson’s portfolio of companies might not have massive market share, but it still keeps pushing the envelope. Earlier this week, his MP3Tunes introduced a new locker sync. And now his SIPphone is getting ready to launch Gizmo5, a mobile callback and IM client for mobile handsets. It’s the latest offering from SIPphone, which makes [...]

SixApart Has A New CEO, Chairman
Chris Alden, former publisher of Red Herring and co-founder of RSS aggregator Rojo Networks, has been named the new CEO and chairman of blogging software giant Six Apart.Alden first joined Six Apart more than a year ago, after the San Francisco-based creator of Movable Type, Vox and TypePad acquired Rojo. Alden succeeds Barak Berkowitz, who [...]

Mercora Rebrands As Social.FM, Mac Client
Mercora, one of the earliest start-ups based in Sunnyvale, Calif. in the social music business is rebranding itself as Social.FM. The new branding - definitely an improvement over the old name - also comes with a new Mac client. [I have not been able to check out the new client, because the company website [...]